Will this bring me back to life?

I realize I have been gone from the blogging world for an embarrassing amount of time. I think a lot of it has to do with my time management skills - some of it has to do with how extremely busy Jorja and I really have been and since I take pictures of EVERYTHING we do, I begin to get overwhelmed when I think about blogging - and a lot of it has to do with how frustrating Blogger can be in trying to upload pictures and what not.

I have some friends that have amazing blogs and I'm always so envious of what they do. I really do want to be better at this - especially so I won't forget ANY of this precious time I've had with Jorja. So, in order to help me out - I discovered a new blogging tool called Blogo. It is a program designed for Mac users to help make blogging simple. This is my first time to use it. Let's see how it works out for me... will this be what pulls me out of my blogging slump and bring me back to life??? We shall see... ;)

oh, and just because I need to see how easy it is to upload pics and so you can see the CUTEST girl alive... here are some pics as well...

You be the Judge

Alright, people. I want to hear from you! :) You saw a "sneak peek" earlier of Jorja's portrait session with my friend Jennifer... now, you can see all of them here: Portraits by Jenn (at the bottom click the "enter site" picture - then click on "clients" at the bottom - password: jones. then click on "Jorja Easter" - although feel free to look at her others as well if you want). I am having a hard time picking which pictures I want (because, clearly, I want them ALL). So, take a look for yourself and let me know what YOUR faves are!

And just because I haven't posted a picture of my OWN in a while... here's a little sneak peek at one of the posts I'm working on...


Don't you just want to eat her up?! :)

Ridiculous

Okay - so since I am RIDICULOUS and can't ever seem to post my OWN photos of Jorja... maybe this will suffice for those of you who have been bugging me for a month to POST SOMETHING NEW! :) My best friend, Jennifer {an AMAZING photographer, by the way} came and spent a few days with me and, of course, I put her to "work" while she was here and had her take some pics of Jorja in her Easter outfit. You can take a sneak peek here: Portraits by Jenn

You can also see, on Jenn's personal blog site, some really cute pics of her daughter, Hadleigh and Jorja playing together while they were here : The Lankford Family. As you can see, they are already Besties! :)

Trust me, I AM working on posts and even have some ready to publish! But for some reason I just keep thinking that I want to get ALL my posts done before I publish - which is apparently a ridiculous line of thinking since it will take me a decade to finish. {sigh} Jorja and I have been VERY busy and I have a TON to blog about... but finding the time has been difficult. Sorry friends. Updates ARE coming... and hopefully SOON! :)

The Bunny, The Bunny - Oh, I love The Bunny!

Dearest Easter Bunny,

It is with great regret and sadness that I write this letter to you today as I know I have crushed your spirit and I'm willing to face the fact that you may never again hop with that extra bounce after our encounter today. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me (after all, isn't that what Easter is really all about - the forgiveness of sins?) The truth is - I love to talk about "Bunny", wave to "Bunny", look at pictures of "Bunny" and I even love to twirl when the "Bunny Song" comes on but for some reason, to see you SO large and up close and standing on two feet kind of freaked me out a little and I just couldn't bear the thought of sitting next to you all by myself. I know I made quite the scene today in the mall when we met and I realize how much it must have hurt your feelings when I put the death-grip hold on my mom and yelled over and over and over "No! No bunny"! But, despite what you think I did get all dressed up cute JUST for you and really thought we would be the best of friends! I guess I realized that I'm just not quite ready to make that step yet... but maybe next year Big Guy! Oh, and I hope you don't mind that I made my mom sit with us for our picture - luckily she showered today or the picture could have been a REAL disaster! And I'm really hoping you heard me AS SOON as we walked away from you say "Sorry Bunny, Bye Bye". I really didn't want to hurt your feelings today and I really hope you know how sorry I am. Hey, you should at least look on the bright side - I do like you better than that fat guy with the long beard and red suit...

Here's hoping you will still fill my Easter Basket full of goodies,
Jorja Mae

Top O' the Mornin to You!

I think it's funny how a holiday like St. Patrick's Day was once a holiday I could care less about to now being a holiday I spent weeks trying to plan for! Jorja makes all the little things so much bigger and better! :) I searched for the most festive shirt I could find for Jorja, went to a million stores before finding a shamrock cookie cutter, made Shane help me make sugar cookies from scratch that took 2 days to make, cut & cook, made up my very own spinach dip recipe, put on my own green shirt and headed over to Playgroup full of {green} food, friends and fun! Some of the girls I met through an online playgroup have joined together to make our own Playgroup that meets EVERY Tuesday and as the luck of the Irish would have it, St. Patty's Day landed on Tuesday! Whoot Whoo! Jorja & I brought cookies for all the kids to decorate & spinach dip for everyone to eat. The kids played & the moms talked and fun was had by all - if only we would have discovered a pot of gold, now THAT would have been lucky! :)

My sweet little Lassie and her "cheese" face! Someone Kiss this girl, she IS {part} Irish!! :)

The Group in our Green! Notice all the moms are looking at the camera but all the kids are looking up at the TV screen on the wall. We had to do something to get them to all sit still! :)




I made all the kids Green Shamrock Cookies to decorate and I think it was a hit... at least with Jorja anyway! :) She loved sneaking tastes of the icing, shaking on the sprinkles and then of course eating the actual cookie! So fun!

Mom & Jorja having fun decorating cookies and celebrating St. Patty's Day!

And it wouldn't be a play date without a picture of the "love birds"! Jorja was apparently wanting to snuggle and Cole was more interested in his truck. And so it begins... Boys!

This is Jorja hanging w/ the boys - Nathan, Cole & Keagan! Sweet little Nathan was wanting to snuggle with her but I'm not sure she was all that excited about it - maybe she was still upset that Cole didn't return the snuggle first! HA!



Just wanted to show you her adorable St. Patty's Day shirt!! Deep down she knows Daddy is the ONLY guy for her! :)

I mean, seriously - how adorable is she?!?! LOVE.HER!